Workers at a call centre are refusing to sign a new contract that limits toilet breaks to as little as two minutes a day.

Staff at the Sitel site in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, have been told their “personal time” should take up no more than one per cent of their shift. For a four-hour part-time day that’s just over two minutes.

A disgruntled worker said: “They handed out this contract to us all to limit the time we spend in the toilet to a maximum of one per cent of our working day.

“For some of the staff that works out at two minutes. We can’t even get to the toilet and back in that time, never mind do anything.”